Word: frailness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was our first really close look at the dancers. Only one of the men looked frail and particularly feminine, the others were slight but athletic. Their faces were chiselled. I thought of the sketch of Kirkegaard by Manet with its Nordic impishness. The women were lovely, budding, blossoming and fading with each costume change. Against the gossamer of the skirts were beautifully developed supple legs...
Died. Ghulam Mohammed, 61, frail ex-Governor General of Pakistan (1951-55), who, as its first Finance Minister, buttressed his country's shaky economy, allied it with the U.S., was named Governor General and became the strongman of Pakistan; of a heart attack; in Karachi, Pakistan...
Died. Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell, 98, tiny, frail widow of U.S. composer Edward (To a Wild Rose) MacDowell, who established a memorial artists' retreat at Peterborough, N.H. after his death (1908) with funds raised from concerts (she was an accomplished pianist), speeches and friends' donations; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. A gentle, indomitable woman who wore an old-fashioned pompadour and dressed in purple silk and white stockings, Marian MacDowell presided until 1946 over the rustic 600-acre MacDowell Colony, which sheltered 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Thornton Wilder, Willa Gather, Aaron Copland, Edwin Arlington Robinson...
Though he had heard quite a bit about Finchden Manor− school for maladjusted boys 25 miles southwest of Canterbury−the London Times correspondent was hardly prepared for the frail, abstracted man who runs it. "What is the curriculum?" asked the correspondent...
...Western seafarers inquired as they headed their frail caravels toward the edge of the world. "Because it looketh down upon hell," others replied-and yet they all sailed on across the fearful horizon seeking glory, God and gold. Royal Britain sounded the fanfare, demolishing the Spanish Armada in 1588, dashing France off Cape Trafalgar in 1805, ushering in Pax Britannica with its Mediterranean life line-Gibraltar, Malta, Suez-and its rich markets for the Industrial Revolution. "Talk of fun!" Winston Churchill cried beside the Nile. ''Where will you beat this? On horseback, at daybreak, within shot...